We need community leaders to step up.

We need community leaders to step up.

Self-organizing is hard. Thank you for investing your time. It will make a HUGE difference.

1. Pick an area.
2. Organize a leadership team on Omidyar Network (links below) [(3) is done already]
3. IM me so that I can publicize who the leaders for each team are and keep this blog post updated with the current information.
4. Leaders should post their contact information so that people can contact them.
5. If you can't lead, just subscribe to the email list (katrinadev-subscribe@civicspacelabs.org) and stand by while we get organized.

Keiran Lal (Kieran AT civicspacelabs org) will organize a conference call and IRC for latter to help with organizing.

To stay informed, send email to katrinadev-subscribe@civicspacelabs.org

If you are involved with the Katrina PeopleFinder Project, or want to be, it is critical that we improve our organization structure as soon as possible. Luckily, Jon Lebowsky has shown us the way. Thanks Jon! You can see how they organized the leadership team by following the Omidyar Network link for the volunteer data entry project.

Self-organizing is hard. Thank you for investing your time. It will make a HUGE difference.


The project has four main goals. Each on needs a few leaders and back-ups.

(1) DATA SPECIFICATION. Create, disseminate and support others in using the PeopleFinder Interchange Format.
Leader1: Ka-Ping Yee (ping AT zesty ca)
Leader2: (kleinpeterj at corp.earthlink.net)
Leader3: ?

(1a) Contact all existing structured data sites ask them to implement the data standard
Leader1: Katrina Data Project (?)
Leader2:

(1b) Help developers implement the data specification
Leader1:
Leader2:

(1c) Whatever else needs to be done.

Organize your leadership team here: http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/1/

(2) WRITE SOFTWARE. Write software that gets other people’s data into the PeopleFinder Interchange Format.

Leader1: ?
Leader2: ?
Leader3: ?

(2a) Assign folks to scrape specific databases
Leader1:
Leader2:

(2b) Create Salesforce.com central data repository.
Leader1: Jon Plax (jplax AT salesforce com)
Leader2:

(2c) Other items

Organize your leadership team here: http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/2/


(3) VOLUNTEER DATA ENTRY: Organizing a massively parallel volunteer data entry project to enter refugee data posted to online bulletin boards into a central database by hand.
Leader1: Jon Lebowsky (irc.freenode.net #globalvoices)
Leader2: ?
Leader3: ?

(3a) Don’t exactly know since Jon Lebowsky has it under control
Leader1:
Leader2:

(3b) Don’t exactly know since Jon Lebowsky has it under control
Leader1:
Leader2:

Your leadership team is already organized here: http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/0/


(4) Market the Katrina PeopleFinder Project and recruit volunteers.
Leader1: Andrew Hoppin (Andrew AT civicspacelabs org)
Leader2: ?
Leader3: ?

(4a) Recruit full, deep leadership teams for all segments of project
Leader1:
Leader2:

(4b) Other Items

Organize your leadership team here:
http://www.omidyar.net/group/katrinarefugee/news/3/